[Garden] Winding Down the season

[Peter Belej]

Gardeners,

 

As many of you can guess by the nature of the weather, the time is
approaching to do the final clean-up of the garden.  I am sending this
mainly since I will unlikely be back to the garden until the spring,
except possibly to pop in and say "Hello"

 

Aside form harvesting, about the only thing that would be somewhat
critical to do would be to pull out all the plants and throw them on the
compost (squash plants, eggplant, melon, peppers, nasturtium, etc.).
Things that do not need to be yanked out are:

-          Herbs (you can trim some down a couple inches from the ground
like mint, parsley, chives...)

-          Asparagus

-          Raspberries

-          Strawberries

-          Gooseberries

-          Rhubarb

-          Garlic (since we recently planted this)

-          Winter Wheat

-          (Artichoke?  I really have no idea about this one)

-          Late harvest crops (ie: things we planted recently and we're
waiting to hopefully grow up a bit)

 

If there is straw handy, you may consider to cover some of the beds (or,
maybe cover the beds with the black tarp-ish stuff that's in rolls in
the corner of the shed) so that we'll minimize the number of weeds we'll
have to deal with at the beginning of next season (this means that the
weeds that are in there -before- laying down the cover need to be pulled
out!)

 

I'd suggest tilling once again, but digging those beds by hand is a
pain, and renting one is, again, a matter of transportation.

 

So, if I manage to get out, I'll see you later.  If not, happy gardening
till season's end!

 

Pete

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